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[Job Characteristics] [Respondent's Opinions About Employment] [Discrimination]
| Job Characteristics | Return to Top | SIB DATA | SIB DATA | |||
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| How did you find out a job was available at your current/last employer when you first went to work there | RG001JJC | SG001JJ | ||||
| Did the person who told a job was available at your current/last job know you were looking for something new? | RG002JJD | SG002JJC | ||||
| Did the person who told a job was available at your current/last job contact you first, or did you contact them first? | RG003JJD | SG003JJC | ||||
| Did the person who told you a job was available at your current/last job work for the company where you got the job? | RG004JJD | SG004JJC | ||||
| Did the person who told you a job was available at your current/last job the same person who actually hired you? | RG005JJE | SG005JJD | ||||
| How many hours do you usually work at (Company name)? | RG006JJC | SG006JJ | ||||
| How many weeks per year do you usually work at (Company)? | RG007JJC | SG007JJ | ||||
| Do you have a second job or business for which you worked at the same time you worked for (Company)? | RG008JJC | SG008JJ | ||||
| For respondents with more than one job; how many hours total do you work at all jobs, including your main job, per week? | RG009JJC | SG009JJC | ||||
| For respondents with more than one job; how many weeks per year do you usually work at all jobs, including your main job? | RG010JJC | SG010JJC | ||||
| Total hours worked per week on all jobs. | JXCRH2 | XJXCRH2 | RG020JJC | SG020JJD | ||
| Not including yourself, about how many people worked where you worked for your current/last company? | JXCRNO | XJXCRNO | RG023JJC | SG023JJ | ||
| Summary - not including yourself, about how many people worked where you worked for your current/last company? | RG024JJC | SG024JJ | ||||
| Current/Last firm size, categorical. | RG025JJC | SG025JJ | ||||
| Was your current/last job with the federal, state, or local government? | RG026JJF | SG026JJ | ||||
| Alternate job supervision questions. 50% of the sample answered Jencks items; remainder answered Wright items. | RG027JJC | SG027JJ | ||||
| Do you have authority to hire or fire others? | JRCRHF | XJRCRHF | RG028JJF | SG028JJC | ||
| Can you influence or set the rate of pay received by others? | JRCRPO | XJRCRPO | RG029JJF | SG029JJC | ||
| Someone else influences or sets your rate or amount of pay? | JRCRYP | XJRCRYP | ||||
| Do you supervise the work of others? That is, what they produce/produced or how much? | JRCRS1 | XJRCRS1 | RG030JJF | SG030JJC | ||
| Do you decide what others do and how they do it? | JRCRS2 | XJRCRS2 | ||||
| Do you decide what others do, but they decide how to do it? | JRCRS3 | XJRCRS3 | ||||
| Does someone else supervise your work? That is, what you produce or how much)? | JRCRS4 | XJRCRS4 | RG031JJF RG036JJF |
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| Does someone else decide both what you do and how you do it? | JRCRS5 | XJRCRS5 | ||||
| Does someone else decide what you do, but you decide how to do it? | JRCRS6 | XJRCRS6 | ||||
| Does your supervisor exercise little or no control over your work? | JRCRS7 | XJRCRS7 | ||||
| Does your boss have a boss? | RG032JJG | SG032JJD | ||||
| Which of the following best describes the position which you hold in your business or organization? | RG033JJF | SG033JJC | ||||
| Would that be a top, middle, or lower managerial position? | RG034JJG | SG034JJD | ||||
| Summary for which of the following best describes the position which you hold in your business or organization? | RG035JJF | SG035JJC | ||||
| Do you participate in making policy decisions (products or services delivered, total number of people employed, budgets, etc.), or even provide advice about them? | RG037JJF | SG037JJC | ||||
| As an official part of your job, do you supervise the work of other employees or tell other employees what work to do? | RG038JJF | SG038JJC | ||||
| Frequency of supervision - summary for how many times an hour, day, week, month, or year does a supervisor check up on your work? | RG039JJG | SG039JJE | ||||
| About how many times an hour, day, week, month, or year does a supervisor check up on your work? | RG040JJG | SG040JJE | ||||
| Unit for how many times an hour, day, week, month, or year does a supervisor check up on your work? | RG041JJH | SG041JJF | ||||
| Can you decide what time to come to work and when to leave, either officially or unofficially? | RG042JJF | SG042JJ | ||||
| How much education do most people in job's like yours have? | RG043JJC | SG043JJ | ||||
| All things considered, how satisfied are you with your job as a whole? | JBCRSA | XJBCRSA | RG044JJC | SG044JJ | ||
| Would you agree or disagree that "a person on your job learns new things that could lead to a better job or promotion?" | RG045JJC | SG045JJ | ||||
| How frequently does your job require lots of physical effort? | RG046JJC | SG046JJ | ||||
| How frequently does your job require intense concentration or attention? | RG047JJC | SG047JJ | ||||
| How frequently do you have to work under the pressure of time? | JXCRPR | XJXCRPR | RG048JJC | SG048JJ | ||
| In an average week on your job, how many hours do you spend reading, writing, and dealing with written materials? | JXCRRD | XJXCRRD | RG049JJC | SG049JJ | ||
| How many hours a week do you spend working with your hands, tools, or equipment? | JXCRHN | XJXCRHN | RG050JJC | SG050JJ | ||
| How many hours a week do you spend dealing with people about work -- not just passing the time of the day? | JXCRPL | XJXCRPL | RG051JJC | SG051JJ | ||
| When you work under time pressure, does it usually involve longer hours? | JRCRHR | XJRCRHR | ||||
| When you work under time pressure, does it usually involve heavier physical work? | JRCRHW | XJRCRHW | ||||
| When you work under time pressure, does it usually involve faster physical movements? | JRCRFM | XJRCRFM | ||||
| When you work under time pressure, does it usually involve faster thinking? | JRCRFT | XJRCRFT | ||||
| When you work under time pressure, does it usually involve anything else? | JRCROP | XJRCROP | ||||
| How dirty do you get on the job? | JXCRDT | XJXCRDT | RG053JJC | SG053JJ | ||
| How many hours a week do you spend doing the same thing over and over? | RG052JJC | SG052JJ | ||||
| Which of these things does your work involve: the same thing in the same way repeatedly, or the same kind of thing in a number of different ways, or a number of different kinds of things? | JRCRSM | XJRCRSM | ||||
| How often are you held responsible for things that are really out of your control? | JXCRCN | XJXCRCN | ||||
| Were you exposed to dangerous conditions in your work? | RG054JJC | SG054JJ | ||||
| What sort of hazardous conditions were you exposed to on the job? | RG055JJD | SG055JJD | ||||
| Degree of seriousness of dangerous condition on the job? | RG056JJE | SG056JJE | ||||
| How frequently are you exposed to dangerous conditions? | RG057JJD | SG057JJD | ||||
| What chance do you think there is that you will lose your job completely in the next two years? | RG058JJC | SG058JJ | ||||
| Do you get paid vacations? | RG059JJC | SG059JJ | ||||
| Other than holidays like the 4th of July and Labor Day, how many paid vacation days are you allowed to take off each year? | RG060JJC | SG060JJ | ||||
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| Importance of respondent's work. | RB035RE | SB038RE | ||||
| Respondent's work success. | RB038RE | SB041RE | ||||
| If an average job is rated 100, how would you rate your job? | RG061JJC | SG061JJ | ||||
| Which do you think is more important in a job: getting a pension or getting high pay? | RG062JJC | SG062JJ | ||||
| Which do you think is more important in a job: being able to have on-the-job training, or getting high pay? | RG063JJC | SG063JJ | ||||
| Which is more important: being able to work without frequent checking by a supervisor, or getting high pay? | RG064JJC | SG064JJ | ||||
| Which is more important: having a job that other people regard highly, or getting high pay? | RG065JJC | SG065JJ | ||||
| How important is having the opportunity to get on-the-job training compared to high pay? | MG001RER | NG001RER | ||||
| How important is having a large number of paid vacation days compared to high pay? | MG002RER | NG002RER | ||||
| How important is being able to do different things rather than the same things over and over compared to high pay? | MG003RER | NG003RER | ||||
| How important is having a low risk of losing your job compared to high pay? | MG004RER | NG004RER | ||||
| How important is being able to decide what time to come to work and when to leave compared to high pay? | MG005RER | NG005RER | ||||
| How important is being able to work without frequent checking by a supervisor compared to high pay? | MG006RER | NG006RER | ||||
| How important is being able to avoid getting dirty on the job compared to high pay? | MG007RER | NG007RER | ||||
| How important is having a job that other people regard highly compared to high pay? | MG008RER | NG008RER | ||||
| How important is having a job that provides health insurance compared to high pay? | MG009RER | NG009RER | ||||
| How important is having a job that provides a pension plan compared to high pay? | MG010RER | NG010RER | ||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: the pay? | JBIMP1 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: fringe benefits? | JBIMP2 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: how interesting the work is? | JBIMP3 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: the supervisor? | JBIMP4 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: your co-workers? | JBIMP5 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: how clean the work is? | JBIMP6 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: the hours you work? | JBIMP7 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: how tiring the work is? | JBIMP8 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: how highly people regard the job? | JBIMP9 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: job security? | JBIM10 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: the amount of freedom you have? | JBIM11 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: the chance to help people? | JBIM12 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: not being under too much pressure? | JBIM13 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: the chance to get ahead? | JBIM14 | |||||
| How important are the following things to you in judging jobs in general: the chance to use your abilities? | JBIM15 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: the pay? | JBSFD1 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: fringe benefits? | JBSFD2 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: how interesting the work is? | JBSFD3 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: the supervisor? | JBSFD4 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: your co-workers? | JBSFD5 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: how clean the work is? | JBSFD6 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: the hours you work? | JBSFD7 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: how tiring the work is? | JBSFD8 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: how highly people regard the job? | JBSFD9 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: job security? | JBSD10 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: the amount of freedom you have? | JBSD11 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: the chance to help people? | JBSD12 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: not being under too much pressure? | JBSD13 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: the chance to get ahead? | JBSD14 | |||||
| How satisfied are/were you with the following at your current/last job: the chance to use your abilities? | JBSD15 | |||||
| Discrimination | Return to Top | |||||
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| Was this respondent in the 50% sample which received questions regarding discrimination? | SG066RE | |||||
| Prior to the last/current job, did discrimination or harassment on the basis of age, disability, race, sex, sexual orientation or anything else ever cause you to leave or lose a job? | SG067RE | |||||
| In your most recent job, have you been the victim of sexual harassment? | SG068RE | |||||
| In your most recent job, have you been the victim of any discrimination on the basis of age, disability, race, sex, sexual orientation or anything else? | SG069RE | |||||
| Would you say that this discrimination was based on age, disability, race, sex, sexual orientation, or something else? | SG070RE | |||||
| Did this discrimination involve: not getting a promotion, losing a job, hostile working conditions, being paid less, or something else? | SG071RE | |||||
| For those who experienced both discrimination and sexual harassment, which one of these was most recent? | SG072RE | |||||
| Would you describe this discrimination as coming from a particular person, a small group of people, or the organization overall? | SG073RE | |||||
| Was/were the person/people referred to above higher than you in the organization, about at your level, below you, or outside the organization you worked for? | SG074RE | |||||
| Did you ever use a procedure inside your organization to complain about this sexual harassment or discrimination incident? | SG075RE | |||||
| Was this procedure you used a written grievance procedure or something more informal? | SG076RE | |||||
| Was this written procedure set up by a union? | SG077RE | |||||
| Did you ever file a complaint with a government fair employment agency? | SG078RE | |||||
| Which did you do first: use a procedure inside organization or file a complaint with a government fair employment agency? | SG079RE | |||||
| Did the agency find reasonable cause to believe that a violation occurred? | SG080RE | |||||
| Did the agency file a lawsuit on your behalf | SG081RE | |||||
| Did you or your lawyer file a lawsuit on your behalf? | SG082RE | |||||
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Was your action resolved completely in your favor, partly in your favor, completely on the other party's favor, or was it not resolved? |
SG083RE | |||||
| Was your action resolved within the organization you work for, the government fair employment agency, through a lawyer-negotiated settlement, or through a trial? | SG084RE | |||||
| Was the procedure for resolving this complaint within your organization extremely fair, somewhat fair, neither fair nor unfair, somewhat fair, or extremely unfair? | SG085RE | |||||
| Was the government fair employment process for resolving this complaint extremely fair, somewhat fair, neither fair nor unfair, somewhat unfair, or extremely unfair? | SG086RE |